Students in the Interdisciplinary Social Psychology Program

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Students	Research interests
Megan Armstrong	Psychology and Law
Valarie Bell
Cami Brown	Risk taking behavior, decision-making, environmental psychology, romantic relationships
Randal Brown	Sexual risk-taking behaviors, communication within intimate relationships, and issues of gender and sexual orientation.
Julie Chomos	Psychology and Law - Primarily interested in decision making processes
Jordan D. Clark	Jury Decision-Making, Social Cognition, Morality, Religion
Marisa Crowder	Cultural Psychology
Laura Davidson	K-12 education, cultural identification and its effect on behavior, research methods, adolescent social and academic development
Bret Davis	Physical Attraction, Relationship Initiation, Relationship Commitment, Sexual Attitudes, Gender Roles, and Attitude Function
Ada Diaconu-Muresan	Feminism & Aging, Feminism & Sexuality, Research Ethics
Michael J. Doane	Social Psychology of Religion, Religion and Well-being/Health, Secular Identities, and Close Relationships
Zebbedia G. Gibb	Attitude change, attitude transmission, continuation and effect of group norms on individual behavior/attitudes
Matt Ghiglieri
Kimberly Greenman
Michael Kwiatkowski
Barbara Larsen	Multi-method research approaches: The intersection of qualitative and quantitative methods. Development of applied research. Trauma, Terrorism, Genocide, Conflict Resolution, Human Rights, Health and Justice
Sam Lindsey	Law, Religion, Agency and Determinism, Parenting
Jennifer Lowman	Sociology of knowledge, sociology of education, social psychology of attitudes and decision making processes.
Val Lykes	gender roles and inequality, motivation and the psychology of money and happiness, religion in a social psychology context, romantic/interpersonal relationships, self-esteem, and health psychology (in particular stress related studies).
Pete Martini	social psychology of education; political psychology; identity (race, gender, sexuality)
Aaron McVean	culture, inter-group relations, social cognition, social identity, social inequality
Dara E. Naphan	Transition experiences from the U.S. military to civilian life for combat and non-combat veterans; U.S. attitudes toward veterans, U.S. military, and U.S. military conflicts; Gender differences in lifetime traumatic events, social support and suicidal behavior; The effects of social comparisons on levels of personal and collective self-esteem
Shane Moulton	Social cognition
Mark Nesbitt
Joshua Padilla	Social identity, attitude change
Lindsay Perez
Jenny Reichert	religion, moral panics, jury decision making
Janice Russell	Feminist psychology, vicim blame as it pertains to female victims of sexual assault
Lorie Sicafuse	Psychology and Law, juvenile justice, gender, health psychology
Victoria Springer	Psychology and Law (organizational, systems), Justice (institutionalizing justice, private vs public justice), actual focus TBA
Rebecca Thomas	Law, Deviance, Gender
Jose Vargas	social psychology and the law, social philosophy (especially the philosophy of science and philosophy of law) and culture. Specific interests include the role of media and children in the law, decision-making, social justice, cultural reproduction and ethics.
J.Guillermo Villalobos	Psychology and Law, Language and Framing Effects, Decision-Making, Social Inequality, Intergroup Relations.
Michael Williams	Educing Information (a.k.a. interrogation), Credibility Assessment (a.k.a. deception/honesty detection), Personality Assessment, Pedagogy of Improvisation.
Steve Wood	Psychology and Law (e.g. jury and juror decision making, attorney performance, media violence, sexual assault/aggression)
Logan Yelderman